Author: Caity Kerr

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Lip Sync Animation – Mixing up lip sync audio, preparing timing for lip syncing.

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I made up the rough interum shot for my office robots:

I’m not 100% sure of the layout of this yet, I might make the right hand side photocopier/fax machine robot bigger and take it off of the file stack, and perhaps only have it run a scan once instead of it cutting off during a second scan. It looks a bit odd to me.

I then put it into a prem pro file with my audio and prev. lip sync to get a better idea of timing:

Now I will export all of the separate elements of audio, and begin animating the rough pass following my ‘storyboard’. I can reference this for mouth shapes. I’m intending on animating on a mixture of Rough Animator and Adobe animate, and then I will tidy up in procreate. I also intend on animating these in segments, so that I have room to play around with timing when I bring it into premier pro later.

I will spend this week acting on feedback from Alec after roughs are finished, and then cleaning up the line art. Next week I will colour the animation ready for submission and I will add it to my showreel!

I used the following as reference for the robot segment:

https://images1.the-dots.com/1615475/tocop-matiere.gif?p=socialLarge

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55eaaf6ee4b0cee52300e94c/1601758046883-WVDH0HD3IXFR996SGJ8M/_TheOffice_PhotoCopier_LOOP_1920x1080.gif?format=2500w

 

 

Animation for the Creative Industries – Cash 3D Model and Animations in UE5.

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Ryan was able to get the character model sorted so that it takes the animation from skeletons, and so that it takes the skin textures and facial features:

I also made up a quick cash 3D model:

I hunted on Sketchfab for some references for topology and Aesthetic:

Low Poly Game Ready Dollars Money Stack by 3dia on Sketchfab

Money Stack and Roll by Desertsage on Sketchfab

 

Money by robfitzy on Sketchfab

Money Loot – Soviet Rubbles by KangaroOz 3D on Sketchfab

100 euro by Mariano Oliva on Sketchfab

Money stack by CrownAngel on Sketchfab

Money Pack by bariacg on Sketchfab

 

I also offered to help, but wasn’t sure what I could do – Ryan has been working to consolidate everyone’s assets into one UE5 file, however has been having a lot of issues whilst trying to import:

 

Animation for the Creative Industries – Animation, Payment.

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This is my last assigned animation for the minute, the payment animation. Again, I referenced simple animations from Animal Crossing. I want to ensure that the animations are clear in their action, however I have to be aware of other deadlines and the time that I need to invest in them! That being said, in the coming weeks I will likely look at polishing these up a bit – I’d like to add a bit more secondary action to this one (I was finding it a little difficult, as the basket clips the desk when I try to add it at the minute), in the basket, the head and the left and right arm. I could probably also have the left leg moving forward a little as it looks a little odd completely stationary! However, I believe the animation communicates the action well enough to be implemented for Monday’s play test.

Animation for the Creative Industries – Animation, Step to Desk.

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I started to work on my step up animation:

 

Again, I tried to go for something kinda goofy and overexaggerated. I’m actually pretty pleased with these, I think they’re probably good enough to be implemented to the game for Monday’s play-test, at least. I took a little reference video of myself to get an idea of the stride, and I referenced a simple stop-walk sequence on mixamo. Additionally, I took a little look at some octodad animations:

Obviously I haven’t gone quite this ridiculous, but I I do quite like the stretchy, silly limb movements.

Animation for the Creative Industries – Animation, Idle.

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I offered to help Amy, our animator, with some animations as she is working on those alone and it seems like a lot for one person to take on. I am not feeling very confident in this, it took me a long time to get myself back into the head space of animating digitally. I managed to finish my first pass of an idle animation today:

I think it’s OK for a first pass, and will work well enough for our play demo on Monday. I’m not too happy with the hands, I think I need to go back in and edit so that the swing is slightly more subtle, and so that it occurs from higher up on the arm.

I spoke to Amy about this, and she made some good suggestions:

I worked on the animation more after I spoke with Amy:

I added Amy’s given coordinates to make the arm ready for the basket rig. I also sped up the movement from leg to leg, as it was feeling very slow for me after a night’s sleep.

I took reference from simple idle stances in animal crossing:

I also took some inspo from mixamo animations:

I liked that these were quite simple – I really liked the 3rd one as it’s very exaggerated, so I tried to emulate that with my idle animation.